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Organized crime and fugitive crackdowns in Poland

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Polish law enforcement agencies continue to conduct operations targeting organized crime, economic fraud, and drug trafficking. Recent investigations have reinforced previous actions against precious metal smuggling, confirming that a group bypassed taxes on approximately 1.7 tons of goods, resulting in a 45 million PLN loss. Financial crime investigations have expanded to include tax fraud and money laundering. The Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) arrested four individuals, including banking and manufacturing executives, for a scheme using fictitious donations to religious institutions to claim nearly 800,000 PLN in tax deductions. Additionally, nine members of an international group were apprehended in Łódź, Warsaw, and Małopolska for laundering 337 million PLN obtained through cyber-scams. In Katowice, five individuals face indictment for operating a call center scam that defrauded victims of over one million PLN by impersonating bank employees and law enforcement. Drug enforcement remains a primary focus. In late October 2026, the Central Investigation Bureau of Police (CBŚP) dismantled a professional laboratory in the Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki district, seizing over 1,600 kilograms of clofedrone with an estimated black market value exceeding 82 million PLN. In the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, authorities discovered a large-scale laboratory in Sadowie, seizing 680 kilograms of clefedrone in the crystallization phase and 2,500 liters of chemical substances. Other disruptions included a production line in Odrzywołek and cannabis cultivation operations in Bydgoszcz and Lublin. In early November 2026, police in Warsaw arrested a 48-year-old man after discovering cocaine, psychotropic drugs, and over 60 liters of liquid 3-CMC (clofedrone) in his vehicle. ~~Authorities estimate~~ On November 4, authorities dismantled another professional laboratory in a former brewery in Rożdżałów, within the ~~liquid could have been used to produce more than 20~~ Chełm municipality, seizing approximately 45 kilograms of ~~the narcotic. Recent operations in the Mazovia region have also targeted narcotics~~ Alfa-PVP and ~~smuggling, including~~ specialized production equipment. A 32-year-old Ukrainian citizen, who was already wanted on a warrant, was arrested at the ~~seizure of marijuana, mephedrone,~~ scene and ~~illicit cigarettes~~ faces up to 20 years in ~~Chrościce.~~ prison.

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